GEN: Stop junk mail!!

["Jeannine Towler (JJ)" <jjtowler@PEN.K12.VA.US>]

I don't know about you, but I get heaps and piles of
unsolicited catalogs and other advertising.  What is even more
aggravating are the duplicates I receive addressed to JJ
TOWLER, or MEDIA SPECIALIST or LIBRARIAN, all at the same
address!

It finally hit the proverbial fan last week and I collected in
a JUNK PILE all the unwanted mail I received.  Yesterday, I had
one of my parent volunteers get on the phone and calle all
their 800 numbers to tell them we wanted to be removed from
their mailing lists.  A couple didn't have 800 numbers, so we
faxed them with the following message:

        "We are on a limited budget at our school and we have a
few select companies from whom we buy materials.  Yours is not
one of them--sorry.
        Therefore, we ask that you take us off your mailing
list to save your postage and catalogs, our time and space, and
everyone's TREES!"

So, I have started a campaign at our school and I hope you will
take up the cause at your schools.  Have all the teachers
deposit their unwanted mail in one location and arrange with
your parent organization to find a volunteer who will notify
these companies to delete your names from their mailing lists.
Then, send the unwanted mail to your nearest recycling center.

Perhaps this campaign will help reduce junk mail and save trees.

Thanks for listening,
JJ

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